Magic of Literature, in 84 pages, we can tell about all the complexity of a country, describe its patriarchal culture, paint the portrait of eight characters and even give voice to a river, the Tigris.
As much to say it right away, Émilienne Malfatto offers us a magnificent text by her art of storytelling and her pen which mixes lyricism and intensity.
She has just received the Goncourt for the first novel, and it is a deserved recognition.
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The young author, reporter and photographer, knows Iraq well.
It is in this country that she set the scene for her story.
The first voice we hear is that of a woman just emerging from adolescence.
She is pregnant.
The man she secretly loves is at war, he will not come back.
They weren't married.
Shame, curse, misfortune, we will not forgive him.
Here, the code of honor rhymes with horror.
“Honor is more important than life.
With us, a dead daughter is better than a mother daughter. ”
Then begins a choral novel of a
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